Marinexplore's quest to save the oceans with data

Silicon Valley based startup Marinexplore wants to
bring together the disparate sources of ocean data from around the
world to make them easy to access and use.

Enormous amounts of data about the Earth's seas are collected
every year, but most of it is locked away inside the hard drives of
oceanography researchers, despite being funded by public money.
Marinexplore wants to give everyone in the world access to that
data.

"Finding and assembling a custom marine dataset was very
time-consuming. Marinexplore is the first to bring all the
segregated public data together on a 3-D data structure, helping
professionals to save time," explained Rainer Sternfeld, the
company's CEO.

Right now, the site includes 1.2 billion points of data taken
from buoys, satellites, ocean platforms, wave gliders and floats. Users can download the data,
share their insights on it and also request the expertise of the
rest of the Marinexplore community.

It's free to join and use, so if you're interested, head on over
and check it out at Marinexplore.com